Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-21
A REPUBLICAN OPINION.

Congressman Grosvenor, OF Ohio, is
quoted in the New York Star as saying
in reply to the question, "What do you
think OF the administration 81 think
Mr.. Cleveland has elevated his party.
The worst thing about him is that he is
the President of the Democratic party.
He is far above the prevailing ideas and
principles of the party. He is trying to
do right and give good, honest admin
istration. He has made a number of
serious mistakes, but he has meant we'll.
He has done as well as he could with
such party. think his most serious
mistake was the veto of the River and
Harbor bill. 1t is being used against
the Democrats already in Kentucky, and
it will hurt him in Ohio and elsewhere
where the people were deeply interested
in it. He has tried to stand up for civil
service reform. He has made a noble
fight against his party, but 1 am afraid
they will be to much for him in the end"
"You think he will be renominated?"
Certainly, by acclamation. The best
way to look at it is this: If he should
die before the Convention the Demo
Gratis would have no one. There is no
man among them who could step to the
front and take his place You can see
how impossible it is that he can have
any opposition. If he were to die, there
would be twenty-five men in the party all
of about the same rank and with equal
chances"
The above is doubtless as honest and
fair an opinion as could be formed from a
Republican standpoint, or as Congress
man of that party could be expected to
express, whose feelings and interests are
Unidentified with the defeat of the Demo-
cratic nominee for President. Even the
objections urged as saving clauses, are
in the main favorable to the Administra-
ton, as they are based upon acts calcu-
lated TO generally strengthen the party
in some of the doubtful States, while
perhaps some little dissatisfaction, not
of sufficient importance to affect the
electoral tickets, may have been created
in some strongly Democratic sections.
This is especially the case in regard to
his veto OF the River and Harbor bill.
The assertion that Mr.. Cleveland has
made a noble fight against his party, but
that it will probably prove "to much for
him in the end," is contradicted in the
next sentence by the expression of the |
belief that he will be renominated by |
acclamation by the Democracy whose
vigorously opposed. There never has
been man in the Presidential chair who |
has furnished SO little capital for opposi-
ton to a succeeding National nominee of |
his party than Mr.. Cleveland, nor one |
who has done SO much to increase |
the chances OF continuance of his |
political party in power. Whether he is
renominated or not, he is certainly
fixing the track in an admirable condi-
tion for the Democratic candidate, who
ever he may be. The idea that in the
event of bis death before the Democratic
Convention, the Democracy would have
no one to run, is too absurd for comment,
and it is hardly to be supposed was seri-
ously entertained by the Ohio Congress
man. There are hundreds of men in the
Democratic party who would make sue
cessful contest upon the record of the
the present Administration, and, in fact,
it would be hardly possible to name a
Democrat who has been prominently
mentioned as a candidate, who would ex-
perience defeat against the strongest Re-
publican that could be nominated by the
Convention of that party. The Demo-
cratic Presidential experiment has proven
l success, and never, even in the palm
est days of the Republican party, was
he result of an ensuing National election
more certainly foreshadowed than is
Democratic success in 1888.